We’ve already verified that the two characters we know of are orthonormal, and we know that there can be at most one more, which would make the character table look like:

Do we have any other representations of to work with? Well, there’s the defining representation. This has a character we can specify by the three values

We calculate the multiplicities of the two characters we know by taking inner products:

That is, the defining representation contains one copy of the trivial representation and no copies of the signum representation. In fact, we already knew about the copy of the trivial representation, but it’s nice to see it confirmed again. Subtracting it off, we’re left with a residual character:

Now this character might itself decompose, or it might be irreducible. We can check by calculating its inner product with itself:

which confirms that is irreducible. Thus we can write down the character table of as

So, why is this just part 1? Well, we’ve calculated another character, but we still haven’t actually shown that there’s any irrep that gives rise to this character. We have a pretty good idea what it should be, but next time we’ll actually show that it exists, and it really does have the character .

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